Tremendous Townsend production celebrates Spanish civil war heroes

Dare Devil Rides to Jarama The Place, Bedford/Touring 5/5
DARE Devil Rides to Jarama is quite simply the best political theatre produced for a long, long time. The Townsend Theatre Company carved themselves an impressive reputation with the touring play The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and this is even better.
Writer and performer Neil Gore, along with actor David Heywood and director and producer Louise Townsend, brings alive a remarkable tale of two most unusual British volunteers in the Spanish civil war.
The play tells the amazing story of Wall of Death motorcycle rider Clem “Dare... read more

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